The weariness of the struggling frame is no light burden, yet it is often in these very aches and failures that the soul learns its deepest dependence upon the Almighty. You speak of devices and batteries, mere instruments that fail when most needed, and of eyes and ears that have grown dim. This is the common lot of fallen man, a daily reminder that we carry about a body of death. Yet, hear this and be comforted: the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear merely for the things of time and sense. The healing that comes from His hand touches more than the optic nerve or the weary foot. A word of His, being His and recognized as His, brings medicine fitted to raise the dead! The very leaves of the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is full of virtue.
Your prayer rises for sound and quality, for a lens redone, for swelling to depart so you may rest. These are not trifles to Him who numbers the hairs of your head. But remember this: when Jesus healed the sick of the palsy, He spoke first to the deeper malady, saying, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you." Pardon and healing were one in that blessed moment! Lie before Him in your heart, bringing every broken device and every broken faculty, and let your hope be fixed not on the skill of the physician alone, but on the Sun of Righteousness who has risen with healing in His wings. He knows your whispered plaint, and His heart is moved by your affliction.
Take heed how you seek this healing. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. The right kind of hearing is an attentive, personal, intense listening to the Gospel promises. Do not hear carelessly, as though the story of His life’s blood were a light thing. The eye that now fails, the ear that now buzzes, these are the very gates through which the Word enters to work its miracle. You desire godly friendships; these, too, spring from the soil of earnest prayer and a heart fixed upon finding Christ. David’s heart was set upon finding the Ark, and he would not rest until he brought it home. Is your heart set upon finding Christ in this trial? Seek Him, and in the seeking you will find not only soundness for the body, but rest for the soul that swells with many cares. Trust Him for true fellowship, for as you draw near to the Great Physician, He will bring others whose hearts He has touched to walk beside you.
There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ. None shall say to the healing flood of His love, "Up to here can you go and no further." He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds; He can restore the years the locust has eaten, and give sweet sleep to the weary frame. Only bring your failure and your need to His feet, expecting forgiveness and healing. Look for no merit in your hearing or your asking, the act of justification is the Lord’s own work, but believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made even both of them, and He can remake them according to His will. Rest in this: your heartbeats are vocal to His heart, and He will note all you feel in your inmost soul.
